Whenever something sketchy happens to your favorite social network's TOS, there are always folks who say they're packing up, taking their data and leaving. But backing up your social data doesn't have to be a last resort. After all, who knows what might happen to the cloud. Read More >>
Featured comment by MrMarkStephenson:
"The software will be made available for free as part of my social network anyway, so this way everyone gets to benefit.
As for beta testing, if you..." More »
So Amazon Glacier is here as super cheap storage for "data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable." But that's different from a lot of the storage you might have used in the past. Read More >>
Featured comment by SixWays:
"Sounds good for backups and potentially for archival purposes, although I'm a little worried by a quote that you can expect to "lose" 10 bytes per yea..." More »